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attention is all you need

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  1. 01

    Computers can’t read. So how do they translate?

    1 min

  2. 02

    Computers don’t read words. They read pieces.

    1 min

  3. 03

    Every word becomes a point in space.

    1 min

  4. 04

    “Bank” means two things. How does a machine pick one?

    1 min

  5. 05

    The old way: read one word at a time.

    1 min

  6. 06

    Why the old way forgets your first sentence.

    1 min

  7. 07

    Why the old way is painfully slow.

    1 min

  8. 08

    What is a GPU? 60 seconds, no jargon.

    1 min

  9. 09

    What if every word could look at every other word?

    1 min

  10. 10

    Attention is a search engine inside the sentence.

    1 min

  11. 11

    How a word finds its match.

    1 min

  12. 12

    Turning scores into percentages.

    1 min

  13. 13

    How “it” finds “animal.”

    1 min

  14. 14

    Where do Q, K, V come from?

    1 min

  15. 15

    The tiny √d fix that saves everything.

    1 min

  16. 16

    All of attention in one line of math.

    1 min

  17. 17

    One look isn’t enough. Use 8.

    1 min

  18. 18

    The flaw: it can’t tell “dog bites man” from “man bites dog.”

    1 min

  19. 19

    Teaching order with sine waves.

    1 min

  20. 20

    The trick that lets you stack many layers.

    1 min

  21. 21

    Attention mixes. This part thinks.

    1 min

  22. 22

    The encoder: how it reads a sentence.

    1 min

  23. 23

    The decoder: writing one word at a time.

    1 min

  24. 24

    No peeking: the mask.

    1 min

  25. 25

    How the writer looks back at the reader.

    1 min

  26. 26

    From numbers back to a word.

    1 min

  27. 27

    How does it learn? Guess, check, fix.

    1 min

  28. 28

    Start slow, speed up, slow down.

    1 min

  29. 29

    Why this trains so much faster.

    1 min

  30. 30

    The scoreboard: did it actually work?

    1 min

  31. 31

    What do the heads actually look at?

    1 min

  32. 32

    One paper. Then ChatGPT.

    1 min

  33. 33

    Explain the whole paper in 60 seconds.

    1 min